Then, while searching the Internet for interesting poetry or writing about jack-in-the-pulpits, I found the most charming book of essays published in 1902, titled Jack-in-the-Pulpit. I was able to download free a copy of this entire essay collection by a Maine journalist, and I look forward to dipping in to it over the course of the next few weeks to discover what this more than a century ago writer has to say about his love of growing up in the New England woods.

Mountain Laurel

Blue Flag

Moth on Fern

Indian Cucumber

Maple Leaf Viburnum

Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a broadleaved evergreen shrub in the heather family, that is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine south to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana. [Wikipedia]